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Article #28318Re: Document fonts: I thought this would work -- why not?
From: Ed Anson
Date: Thu, 19 May 1988 14:31
Date: Thu, 19 May 1988 14:31
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In article <4840@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.) writes: >Not sure why it didn't work in MacWrite or Word, but I do know that many It is known to work well with applications, but with documents there is another problem: Many (most?) applications periodically do a UseResFile for the application file, which has the effect of making the document's resource fork invisible to the resource manager. By the way, this is done at Apple's suggestion, because a DA might have changed the resource search path. Since the application doesn't know that you want to use resources from its documents, it doesn't make any provision for that. -- ===================================================================== Ed Anson, Calcomp Display Products Division, Hudson NH 03051 (603) 885-8712, anson@elrond.CalComp.COM
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!decvax!spray!anson From: anson@spray.CalComp.COM (Ed Anson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Document fonts: I thought this would work -- why not? Message-ID: <2294@spray.CalComp.COM> Date: 19 May 88 14:31:34 GMT References: <394@kosman.UUCP> <4840@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Reply-To: anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson) Organization: CalComp Inc., A Lockheed Company, Hudson, NH, USA Lines: 17